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In a 16-page illustrated pamphlet, Pereira Ignacio was told that Bums (bottles so disreputable that they must be discarded), Crocks (bottles chipped on the bottom) and Scuffles (bottles chipped around the trademark) are a hazard to the business and that there are ways of avoiding that hazard through careful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: The Sun Never Sets On Cacoola | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

D. O. A. (Harry Popkln; United Artists) is a tricky quickie that takes its title from the standard police abbreviation meaning "dead on arrival." Its hero (Edmond O'Brien) wakes up one morning to find himself inexplicably dying of poison. In the few days before the poison takes its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 15, 1950 | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

With a Clifton Webb playing the lead and some bright scripters on the job, the picture might have turned into a devastating satire of radio's foolish age. Veteran Colman does well enough in his orotund English style, but the writers fail him almost completely. Basically, they miss the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 8, 1950 | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Through the civic generosity of local merchants, Managua (pop. 100,000) got its first traffic lights last month. Now that it has nine on the main streets, the capital's 207 taxi drivers have pretty well got the hang of the gadgets, and pedestrians have stopped bellowing from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Stop & Go | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

Lucky 13. There were other determined men present. Australian-born San Franciscan Jim Ferrier used a gimpy backswing (result of a football injury), but he had a delicate putting touch over the tricky greens. By the end of the second day he held a four-stroke lead over Hogan, live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Gaudy Texan | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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